Facilities & Campus Energy Summit

“Improving Energy Resiliency, Efficiency and Sustainability for the Built Environment"

 This senior level educational and networking Summit is designed to provide an interchange of knowledge and serve as a catalyst for collaboration across federal, state and private sector institutional, and commercial facility and campus energy stakeholders. The Summit will focus on both emerging business models and technical capabilities to support increased energy efficiencies, sustainability, reliability, and resiliency for the public and private sector built environment. 

Why Should you Attend the Summit:

• The building sector has the highest potential for improved energy efficiency. Buildings use 36% of America's overall annual energy consumption, and 65% of the electricity demand. (Source:EPA). With more than 350,000 energy- utilizing buildings the federal government is the nation’s largest energy consumer. Energy used in buildings and facilities represents about 38% of the total site-delivered energy use of the federal government. How can the sector improve efficiencies while increasing sustainability and maintaining high levels of reliability and resiliency?
• As the opportunity for American leadership in climate innovation is vast, the Biden- Harris Administration is outlining key planks of an agenda the White House Climate Innovation Working Group will help advance and includes: zero net carbon buildings at zero net cost, including carbon-neutral construction materials. What is the role for the public and private sector facility stakeholders in supporting this goal?
• Technical innovations in data management are allowing the most successful facilities managers and chief engineers to utilize advanced power monitoring, predictive analytics and more data based tools to increase equipment uptime and reduce energy consumption under tight staffing and budget constraints.
• Project financing and Master Planning is accounting for the need to build in renewables, onsite generation and include overall flexibility to account for future unknown advancements in technologies and innovation. Here from leaders across the government and private sector on how they are financing, planning and managing their respective campus and facilities operations to take back these lessons learned and ideas to your own respective organization.

Hear from leaders across the government and private sector on how they are financing, planning and managing their respective campus and facilities operations to take back these lessons learned and ideas to your own respective organization.

2021 Summit Key Focus Areas to Include:

Business Models, Markets, and Financing:

• Adapting Energy Master Plans and Business Models to account for the impact of COVID-19: lessons learned
• Successful strategies for cost justifying and funding efficiency, resiliency and sustainability projects for your built environment including PACE, ESPCs, PPA, Energy- as-a- Service, public-private partnerships
• Successful operational strategies for the Integration of DERs: Best business practices for using solar and energy storage (batteries) to eliminate monthly peak demand charges throughout the year in addition to providing resilience during outages.

Technical Topics:

• Cyber Resiliency: Current threat landscape for facility and campus energy; how to  build in cyber resilience, and what level of resilience to expect from your Control Systems, Energy Information Systems (EIS) and Building Automation Systems (BAS).
• Advanced Energy Management Systems and Data Analytics: Fueled by digitization and new technologies, facility and energy management systems have the ability to providedata driven, real time decision making tools to facility energy managers and engineers. Knowing what data sets to utilize and how to extract meaningful outcomes canunpack energy savings, improve resiliency and help transform facilities and campuses into smarter, automated systems.
• Distributed Energy Resources: Integrating battery storage, microgrids, PV, CHP, EV charging and wind into your energy portfolio through onsite generation or various PPA.
• Monitoring-Based Commissioning (MBCx): How far can the data take us? Using data analytics to automate and enhance the commissioning process.
• Fault Detection and Diagnostics: Using an intelligent predictive maintenance tool for detecting and predicting equipment failures including Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics (AFDD).
• Future of Intelligent Facilities, Campuses and the National Energy Infrastructure: Near future state for supporting IoT; from sensors, management systems and standards to help you move forward. The future of Gird-Interactive Buildings and what energy managers need to prepare for.